The plays and poems of Shakespeare, Volume 11 ; according to the improved text of Edmund Malone, including the latest revisions, with a life, ... from designs by English artists

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...made against the senate, All cause unborn, could never be the native 2 Of our so frank donation. Well, what then? How shall this bosom multiplied 3 digest The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express What's like to be their words:--' We did request it: We are the greater poll,4 and in true fear They gave us our demands.' Thus we debase The nature of our seats, and make the rabble Call our cares fears; which will in time break ope 1 Pass through. 1 Natural parent, cause of birth. 1 This multitudinous bosom. 4 Number. The locks o' the senate, and bring in the crows To peck the eagles. Men. Come, enough. Bru. Enough, with over-measure. Cor. No, take more: What may be sworn by, both divine and human, Seal what I end withal! This double worship, Where one part does disdain with cause, the other Insult without all reason; where gentry, title, wis-dom Cannot conclude, but by the yea and no Of general ignorance;--it must omit Real necessities, and give way the while To unstable slightness: purpose so barr'd, it follows, Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseecli you, You that will be less fearful than discreet; That love the fundamental part of state More than you doubt1 the change of't; that prefer A noble life before a long, and wish To jump 2 a body with a dangerous physic That's sure of death without it;--at once pluck out The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick The sweet which is their poison: your dishonor Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the state Of that integrity which should become it; Not having the power to do the good it would. For the ill which doth control it. Bru. He has said enough. Sic. He has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do. Cor. Thou wretch! despite o'erwhelm thee!--What should the people do with these bald tribune...